Hey all Our Vietnam sector ended yesterday and we have time to reflect on it from Vientiane, capitol of Laos. After major dilemmas as to what we could afford NOT to see and how to make the most of our time we did a quick 2 day very fun run through the beach town of Nhatrang and packed a day full with a touristy booze cruise to surrounding islands and made more friends whilst singing national anthems, snorkelling, dancing on stage to Labamba (pure cheese, we know...

Greetings and How D'yado's all Interesting thing about history books, and who writes 'em. Over here, it's referred to as the American War, and the slant is quite clearly towards American aggression and their part in trying to control Vietnamese affairs. The Vietnamese Buddhist take on the war (as told to us by a wizened gentleman traveller from Maine, Bill, whom we met in Cambodia, who was stationed for 6 months in Vietnam in '63 and has been...

Things we learnt on our 3-day (dodgy) Mekong Delta "tour":There are officially 8million people living in Ho Chi Minh City. (unofficially about 11million), and 4million scooters driven there.The cheapest & most popular scooter (made in china) costs $300 to buy, and ultimately, much much more in repairs.The speed limit on the national road for bus drivers is determined by the amount of police patrolling it on any given time. (with the speed obviously ...